{"product_id":"offcuts-patrick-hartigan-9781764520379","title":"Offcuts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffcuts\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate and beautifully observed collection of short prose pieces by Patrick Hartigan, a Sydney-based painter whose visual sensibility permeates every sentence. Published by Gazebo Books in 2019, the collection gathers over thirty brief narratives - some spanning only a page - that illuminate the extraordinary in the overlooked corners of daily existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pieces move fluidly between continents and moods: a son scatters his father's ashes at a Waldorf school; an artist hangs nudes in a gallery that doesn't entirely welcome them; a man restores a cracked fireplace tile with the patience he can't locate in his painting studio; a grandfather's frail voice brightens over the phone with a joke about a dead woman's usefulness in heaven. Throughout, Hartigan attends to objects - a clock radio on a nature strip, a father's old wallet, a coloured ball returning over a fence - with the care of someone who knows that things hold lives inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in spare, precise prose, \u003cem\u003eOffcuts\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on grief, time, art-making, and the strange richness of paying close attention. It is a debut of uncommon maturity and quiet originality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Hartigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764520378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764520379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gazebo Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.40d","brand":"Patrick Hartigan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743219396863,"sku":"9781764520379","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97142dff-7814-4320-8158-2d0321c1ac08.jpg?v=1782450653","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/offcuts-patrick-hartigan-9781764520379","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}